Shedding new light on retinal protein photochemistry

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 437-458

  Wand, Amir ^a   Gdor, Itay ^a   Zhu, Jingyi ^a,c   Sheves, Mordechai ^b   Ruhman, Sanford ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anabaena sensory rhodopsin; Bacteriorhodopsin; Light harvesting carotenoids; Ultrafast spectroscopy; Xanthorhodopsin

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PROTEINS; VISION;

ANABAENA SENSORY RHODOPSINS; BACTERIORHODOPSIN; LIGHT-HARVESTING; LIGHT-HARVESTING CAROTENOID; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RETINAL PROTEINS; SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRA-FAST SPECTROSCOPIES; XANTHORHODOPSIN;

CAROTENOIDS;

ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RETINAL; RHODOPSIN;

ANABAENA; ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW;

ANABAENA; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RETINALDEHYDE; RHODOPSINS, MICROBIAL;

EID: 84875992956     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-040412-110148     Document Type: Article

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